When your consulting clients say No to your proposals, it’s easy to beat yourself up over it. What did you do wrong? Don’t they like you? It can get really personal … if you let it. I love this blog post from Seth Godin. I think it puts the whole thing in perspective and emphasises the need for really good relationships with your...

One of the hardest lessons to learn in business, is that not all business is good business. And that applies through to a consulting business as well. A lesson that you need to learn very early on with your own consulting business, is to recognize when a client potentially turns into the client from hell. It’s quite common in the early stages of...